Julius von Bernuth

Julius Hans Camillo Friedrich Leo Ludwig von Bernuth (12 August 1897-12 July 1942) was a Major-General of the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany.

Biography
Julius Hans Camillo Friedrich Leo Ludwig von Bernuth was born on 12 August 1897 in Metz, Alsace-Lorraine, in the German Empire (present-day Germany) to a family of untitled nobility. He served in the Ducal Hessian Division of the Reichswehr during World War I and received the Iron Cross during combat. In 1939 he was promoted to Colonel in Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht and in April 1942 he became a Brigadier-General. He died in an air crash at Ssochkranaja in the Soviet Union (present-day Russia) in 1942.